ASSIGNMENTS

•TUESDAY, READ SURAS, 12, 19, 55, 62, 71, 76 (HAND OUT)

•WEEKLY PAPER 5 DUE FRIDAY BY 5 P.M.

•MAJOR PAPER 1, FOR A & B SEEKING STUDENTS, DUE NEXT MONDAY, OCT 12.

PRESENTATIONS

NOTES TODAY: RENEE RAYLS

• 1. ASHLEY SPAGNOLO

• 2. GREER KLEBER

• 3. ANA OSBORNE

• 4. CAITLIN JANSEN

• 5. RENEE WUBBENHORST

• 6. CHELSEA HOLLAND

• 7. DEIDRE FREITAS

THE KORANNUMBER YOUR PAGES IF YOU HAVEN’T YET

GROUND RULES

• GOLDEN RULE

• TRY TO UNDERSTAND FROM THE HISTORICAL

CONTEXT

• REMEMBER THIS IS SOMEONE’S SACRED TEXT

• BE OPEN-MINDED

• LOOK AT THIS FROM A LITERARY/CULTURAL

PERSPECTIVE

STATS

•GLOBAL ISLAMIC POPULATION

• 1.6 BILLION MUSLIMS GLOBALLY IN 2010

• EST. 1.9 BILLION BY 2020

• EST. 2.1 BILLION BY 2030

• EST. 2.5 M MUSLIMS IN U.S. IN 2010SOURCE: PEW RESEARCH CENTER

•610 THE ANGEL GABRIEL APPEARS TO

MUHAMMAD (MECCAN SURAS)•622 MECCANS DRIVE MUSLIMS OUT; THEY FLEE TO MEDINA (MEDINAN SURAS)

•624 MUSLIMS BEGIN WAR WITH MECCA (MED.

SURAS)

•630 MUSLIMS DEFEAT MECCANS

•632 MUHAMMAD DIES

https://sites.google.com/a/dana.wiseburn.org/elder/islam-unit-2

THE KA’BA

•HOLIEST SITE IN ISLAM

•ONCE FILLED WITH IDOLS

•BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN

BUILT BY ABRAHAM

HTTP://WWW.WEBPAGES.UIDAHO.EDU/~RFREY/220KABA.HTM

MECCAN SURAS

•MORE PROPHETIC

•AGAINST IDOLATRY

•BLESSINGS & CURSES

•CONVERSION

•MORE STORIES

MEDINAN SURAS

•LAWS FOR COMMUNITY LIFE

•MARRIAGE, INHERITANCE LAWS

BUZZ GROUPS

•WRITE FOR 2 MINUTES

•WHAT SURPRISED YOU ABOUT READING THE KORAN?

•WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE AT THIS POINT?

• SHARE IN GROUPS OF 3

WOMEN’S STATUS BEFORE ISLAM

• FEMALE INFANTICIDE WAS COMMON.

• WOMEN WERE OWNED BY THEIR FATHER, HUSBAND, OR ELDER BROTHER—NO REAL LEGAL RIGHTS.

• MEN COULD HAVE AS MANY WIVES AS THEY WANTED AND COULD DIVORCE THEM FOR ANY CAUSE. WOMAN WAS NOT PROVIDED FOR.

• WOMEN OWNING PROPERTY WAS RARE.

COMMUNITY CONCERNS SURAS 4 & 5

• SOME CONCERNS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

•WOMEN ARE STILL INFERIOR TO MEN

• INHERITANCE & MARRIAGE LAWS

• BEGINNING OF SURA 5 TALKS ABOUT FOOD LAWS, SIMILAR TO THE JEWISH FOOD LAWS,

RECORD TWO PASSAGES THAT YOU POINTED TO. DO THEY CONFUSE YOU OR WAS THERE SOMETHING INTERESTING, INTRIGUING, OR UNEXPECTED?

•WHAT MIGHT HAVE PERSUADED PEOPLE TO CONVERT?

•GOD: WHERE DO YOU HEAR MERCY? JUDGEMENT?

• RELATIONSHIP TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS?

• PLACE OF KORAN AND MUHAMMAD?

PASSAGES

• 8-10 “GOD MADE A COVENANT…”

• 10-12 “APOSTLE DO NOT GRIEVE….NOTHING TO FEAR OR REGRET”

SHARE TWO PASSAGES THAT YOU POINTED TO IN YOUR GROUPS--WHY DID YOU POINT TO THOSE PASSAGES? DID THEY CONFUSE YOU OR WAS THERE SOMETHING INTERESTING, INTRIGUING, OR UNEXPECTED? THEN RECORD YOUR GROUP’S TOP THREE MOST INTERESTING POINTS AND REMAINING QUESTIONS ON THE CHALK BOARDS.

PLENARY SESSION. ONE GROUP SHARE AND ANOTHER GROUP RESPOND:

• TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION

• POSE A RELATED QUESTION

• POINT OUT AN OBSERVATION YOU HAD THAT RELATES TO SOMETHING THEY SAID.